Advanced Certificate in the Clinical Application of Attachment Theory

This Advanced Certificate Training is made up of a series of online courses. The aim is to explore the benefits of working therapeutically in an attachment informed way linking clinical work with attachment research and theory.

Each day of training carries 7 CPD hours (to include 1 hour per day of training as pre-course listening or reading)

Maximum of 18 participants, apart from Module 7 – Attachment and Oneself, which has a maximum of 8 participants.

This will be led by Nicola Jones who is an expert in attachment, and one of our core trainers.

Introduction to the Series

An attachment-informed approach can make the inner worlds of our clients and patients more visible and is essential to meeting others safely and enabling the exploration of their presenting problems. No other clinical theory yields so much practical information about the theory of human development as attachment theory and no other theory explicitly links establishing a secure base in therapy with a similar process during infancy.

Attachment theory does not dictate a particular form of treatment; rather, understanding the nature and dynamics of attachment and of mentalisation (capacity for curiosity and holding uncertainty) informs rather than defines intervention and clinical thinking (Slade (2008)

You will be able to attend some or all of the modules, and book to attend the ones you want to.  We hope to run this Certificate again in 2027.  More info will be on our website by the end of November 2025

If you’d like to express interest and save a place on this series, please email julietgrayson @ gmail.com

1 Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application

2026 March 1, 2
2026 May 8, 9
2026 Oct 16, 17

2 Clinical Application of the Adult Attachment Interview and Mentalisation

2026 Mar 21
2026 July 10

3 Promoting Intimacy and Connection in Couples Therapy: An attachment informed approach

2026 June 12,13

4 Thriving Into Parenthood: An attachment informed approach 

2026 Sept 12, 13

5 Attachment Informed Approach to Complex Trauma

2026 July 28

6 Attachment & Sex

2026 Nov 08

7 Attachment & Oneself: An experiential group for caregiving professionals

2026 April 17
2026 July 29
2026 Nov 7